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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Varazdin progressive/blackened death metal act from northern Croatia, active since 2020. Their fusion of progressive complexity with blackened death metal aggression represents the more ambitious end of the Croatian extreme metal spectrum.
Belgian darkwave and blackened gothic/doom metal project formed in 2024, blending ethereal darkwave textures with extreme metal heaviness. Their submissive name contrasts with the dominant darkness of their hybrid sound.
Budapest black metal/post-hardcore act formed in 2019, blending two seemingly incompatible styles into a cohesive whole. Their genre-crossing approach reflects the Hungarian capital's increasingly experimental heavy music scene.
Marseille's On the Edge throws together death, groove, thrash, and melodic death metal into a high-energy crossover that keeps one foot in old-school aggression and the other in modern heaviness. Their tight, riff-centric songwriting owes as much to Lamb of God and Gojira as it does to classic thrash.
One of the most enduring names in Greek metal, On Thorns I Lay has evolved dramatically since emerging in the early 1990s with crushing death-doom before transitioning through gothic metal into atmospheric, melancholic territory. Albums like "Orama" and "Aegean Sorrow" showcase their gift for sorrowful melody and emotional depth.
North Rhine-Westphalian symphonic metal project formed in 2022, building elaborate compositions around orchestral arrangements and heavy riffs. Their work occupies the grand, cinematic end of the metal spectrum.
Death/thrash metal band from Amersfoort, the Netherlands, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers aggressive death-thrash crossover from the Utrecht province city.
Hailing from Avon Lake, Ohio, Once Flesh deal in methodical, crushing death metal that leans into suffocating atmosphere as much as raw brutality. Their work sits in the tradition of mid-tempo American death that prizes weight over speed.
A freshly emergent black metal force, Once upon Atrocity arrived in 2025 with a name that reads like a dark fable opener and music to match — corrosive, misanthropic, and steeped in cold dissonance.
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